• rynzcycle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ok, I’ll do it…
    He’s alive and well and this is a bit of theatre agreed upon between Putler and him to save face in all directions.*

    *This is a conspiracy theory and not at all based on facts, don’t quote me or take it too seriously

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      A plane crash can make it easier to claim an alive man is dead as there may not be a body.

      I could see this as a means to keep Wagner troops loyalties in check, or just to keep everyone guessing. The most likely scenario though is that Putin did what Putin does which is assassination.

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        The body doesn’t magically disappear. Although it is probably in many, many pieces, this can be confirmed through DNA testing on small samples.

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          DNA testing that Russian investigators will do in Russia. And as we all know, they are trustworthy as fuck

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            Wouldn’t they want to do that to show off their work? Or I guess not so they can distance themselves from it and pretend it never happened.

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      I think its equally likely he was shot down/plane sabotaged, this is fake face saving thing, or the plane crashed due to shoddy mechanics. Whatever the case, the uncertainty works out in Putin’s favour.

      And if this is a fake-out, I think it’ll be found out pretty easily. He is not so adept at disguises.